Opinion – Mexico shamefully joins Russia, Venezuela in backing Cuba’s dictatorship For 30 years, the Soviet Union was the main supporter of Cuba’s communist dictatorship, […]
Day: September 14, 2023
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Wildfires rage as China’s Chongqing suffers unrelenting record heat wave
Smoke and flames rise into the sky from a mountain forest fire triggered by persistent drought and heat waves in Chongqing, China on August 21. […]
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North Korea hopes to build ‘socialist fairyland’ with new laws
A meeting of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea, on September 7. North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament convened this week to pass legislation aimed […]
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Israeli military admits Shireen Abu Akleh likely killed by Israeli fire, but won’t charge soldiers
The Israel Defense Forces have admitted for the first time that there is a “high possibility” Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed […]
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Pakistan UNESCO site Moenjodaro badly damaged by flooding
One of the world’s oldest preserved human settlements has been significantly damaged by torrential rain in Pakistan as the country battles the worst floods in its history. Moenjodaro […]
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Lie as litmus test: Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake calls it ‘disqualifying’ for rival not to declare 2020 election ‘stolen’
A leading Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, continues to put lies about the 2020 presidential election at the center of her campaign […]
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More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election
The Republican nominee in at least 21 of this year’s 36 gubernatorial races is someone who has rejected, declined to affirm, raised doubts about, or tried to […]
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Fact check: Anti-Biden commentators spread false claim that he affixed a Medal of Honor ‘backwards’
President Joe Biden awards the Medal of Honor to Spc. Dwight Birdwell for his actions on January 31, 1968, during the Vietnam War, during a […]
